Eight youths, a minor held in Thane, Aurangabad for suspected ISIS tilt

Thane | Wednesday | 23rd January, 2019

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I hope he is not in any trouble as he is a family person and could have been radicalised. THANE: A swift, simultaneous operation by anti-terrorism squad teams early on Wednesday in the densely-populated Mumbra-Kausa township here and Aurangabad city led to the detention of nine youths, one of them a minor, suspected to have been radicalised and aligned to extremist ideology of ISIS. We were told he was detained because of his association with a person from Aurangabad. "We have detained nine men and are questioning them," additional director general (ATS) Atulchandra Kulkarni told TOI. It is learnt that all of them are followers of the Ahl-e-Hadith school of thought in Islam.In Aurangabad, ATS sleuths started rounding up five men from different areas of the old city around 3am..